Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, 'Trout Mask Replica'

On first listen,
Trout Mask Replica
sounds like a wild, incomprehensible rampage through the blues. Don Van Vliet (a.k.a. Captain Beefheart) growls, rants and recites poetry over chaotic guitar licks. But every note was precisely planned in advance – to construct the songs, the Magic Band rehearsed 12 hours a day for months on end in a house with the windows blacked out. (Producer and longtime friend Frank Zappa was then able to record most of the album in less than five hours.) The avant-garde howl of tracks such as "Ella Guru" and "My Human Gets Me Blues" have inspired modern primitives from
Tom Waits
to PJ Harvey.

Only 1 massive attack album at 397 is ridiculous... blue lines is such a seminal album that should be much much higher and alongside mezzanine . How ray of light, u2, tlc and american idiot are considered better to name but several i don't know. Ridiculously beatles-centric as always.